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ferenity. How much more affecling would it be, 

 to behold the People of diftant Lands arrive, with 

 the Spring, on our fliores, not with the dreadful 

 noife of artillery, like modern Europeans, but 

 with the found of the flute and the hautboy, as 

 the ancient Navigators, in the earlier ages of the 

 World ! We (hould behold the tawny Indian of 

 Southern Afia, forcing his way, as formerly, up 

 it's mighty rivers, in his leathern canoe ; penetrat- 

 ing, through the current of the Petzora, to the 

 extremities of the North, and difplaying, on the 

 frozen fhores of the Icy Sea, the riches of the 

 Ganges. We ihould fee the copper-coloured In- 

 dian of America, in his hollowed log, traverfing 

 the extended chain of the Antilles, conveying 

 from ifle to iile, from (hore to fliore, perhaps to 

 our very Continent, his gold and emeralds. Nu- 

 merous caravans of Arabs, mounted on camels and 

 oxen, would arrive, following the courfe of the 

 Sun, from pafture to pafture, recalling the me- 

 mory of the innocent and happy life of the ancient 

 Patriarchs. 



Winter itfelf would be no interruption to the 

 communication of mankind. The Laplander, co- 

 vered with warm fur, would arrive, under favour 

 of the fnow, in his fledge drawn by the rein-deer, 

 and expofe for fale, in our markets, the fable fkins 



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